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| NISB Message Board Talk high school sports with the best fans in the area! |
Columns and More
from the guy behind
the website ...
from the guy behind
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| Northern Illinois Sports Beat http://www.northernillinoissportsbeat.com |
NISB did not come out of nowhere,
as it's predecessors were once the
main go-to place for sports
information in North Central Illinois.
Way back in 1997, NCIC Prep
Sports was started by Matt Gingrich
("Ging"). Once an independent site,
it moved to the Alliance Sports
network. It survived some glitches by
A.S. and a merger into rivals.com .
From 1997-2003, Ging owned the
site and improved it until selling it to
Prep Sports Online in 2003 under
the name NCIpreps.com.
Under PSO's control, Ging was still
the moderator and the domain
switched from rivals to
JabezNetworks and then to the
PhpBB style of message boards,
supported by PSO. NCIpreps.com
was disabled on June 10, 2004 and
shut down.
A poster on the NCIpreps network,
#35, was also a former worker at
PSO and during the time when he
left PSO and NCIpreps shut down,
he started to revive the message
boards himself under the Network54
domain. He gathered up some of the
posters he knew on NCIpreps and
took them to his site, called Northern
Illinois Sports Beat. Out was the
'central' part, as he expanded the
area.
Over the time of NISB, #35 has been
asked why there is such a large
range of schools, and expanding out
of the original "North Central Illinois"
format. The feeling is that if there is
a school in this NCI area, it should
be fair if all other fellow conference
schools be discussed as well -- not
leaving out any beneficial school,
including a possible rival. Common
opponents of NCI schools are
discussed as well.
In the five years of existence of NISB
there had been many features arrive
and go, as well as types of message
boards. NISB has had three different
types of message boards, and
currently they are provided by
ProBoards. There was also a
shortening of NISB's domain name,
and later a domain name of its own.
Once the different sports seasons
come underway, there will be many
changes to suit the fans and
athletes of Northern Illinois high
school athletics.
as it's predecessors were once the
main go-to place for sports
information in North Central Illinois.
Way back in 1997, NCIC Prep
Sports was started by Matt Gingrich
("Ging"). Once an independent site,
it moved to the Alliance Sports
network. It survived some glitches by
A.S. and a merger into rivals.com .
From 1997-2003, Ging owned the
site and improved it until selling it to
Prep Sports Online in 2003 under
the name NCIpreps.com.
Under PSO's control, Ging was still
the moderator and the domain
switched from rivals to
JabezNetworks and then to the
PhpBB style of message boards,
supported by PSO. NCIpreps.com
was disabled on June 10, 2004 and
shut down.
A poster on the NCIpreps network,
#35, was also a former worker at
PSO and during the time when he
left PSO and NCIpreps shut down,
he started to revive the message
boards himself under the Network54
domain. He gathered up some of the
posters he knew on NCIpreps and
took them to his site, called Northern
Illinois Sports Beat. Out was the
'central' part, as he expanded the
area.
Over the time of NISB, #35 has been
asked why there is such a large
range of schools, and expanding out
of the original "North Central Illinois"
format. The feeling is that if there is
a school in this NCI area, it should
be fair if all other fellow conference
schools be discussed as well -- not
leaving out any beneficial school,
including a possible rival. Common
opponents of NCI schools are
discussed as well.
In the five years of existence of NISB
there had been many features arrive
and go, as well as types of message
boards. NISB has had three different
types of message boards, and
currently they are provided by
ProBoards. There was also a
shortening of NISB's domain name,
and later a domain name of its own.
Once the different sports seasons
come underway, there will be many
changes to suit the fans and
athletes of Northern Illinois high
school athletics.
1997 - NCICPreps.com is created by Matt
Gingrich. It is a message board website devoted
basketball.
1997-2001 - NCICPreps moves to the Alliance
Sports network of websites, which later was
acquired by Rivals.com. The name is changed to
NCIPreps.com and pictures and stories were
added. Forums included an Premimum Ticket
Forum (viewable for a nominal fee), the NCI
Gridiron (football), NCI Boys Basketball forum
and forums for baseball, track and field/XC,
wrestling, girls sports, underclassmen sports and
separate forums for the Western Big 6 and NIC-9
Conferences.
February 2002 – Current NISB Publisher Cody
Cutter (#35) begins posting on the message
boards. New boards created at the time included
the ill-fated Jimmyland (home of popular poster
JimmyChitwood), and Three Rivers Sports
Forums. The Open Forum debuts during this
time as well.
Fall-Winter 2002-03 – Sterling-based Prep
Sports Online acquires NCIPreps.com. PSO
moves the website from Rivals.com to
JabezNetworks, host of the PSO websites. At this
time, NCIPreps becomes strictly message boards.
Fall 2003 – NCIPreps.com begins using the
PhPbb forum style for the first time. Two new
administrators, both PSO officials, are added to
the staff.
February 2004 – Message boards see spark in
popularity in light of the highly anticipated Rock
Falls-Winnebago Boys Basketball game. It was
common to have around-the-clock discussion
about the game in the days leading up to it.
March 2004 – Administrators seek help out, as
select moderators are chosen to oversee
message board functions.
June 10, 2004 – NCIPreps begins what was to
become an ill-fated construction session, and
eventually the NCIPreps.com website was
dumped from PSO’s array of websites, effectively
shutting down the site for good.
June 15, 2004 – Cutter creates a new NCIpreps.
com was created, but after realizing the name
was still in use by PSO, it was changed to
Northern Illinois Sports Beat. Network54 provided
the NISB Message Boards, which for the first time
had a loose geographic boundary that was
considered an expansion of the traditional
NCIPreps boundaries.
August 30, 2004 – After realizing that NCIPreps
was gone for good, Cutter would create a
reconstruction, as what was first considered an
extension of NISB, of what NCIPreps was like in
its days on Rivals.com: Message Boards, news
stories, Athlete Q&A’s, photo galleries, and more.
The message boards would then simply become
a feature of Northern Illinois Sports Beat, along
with the text features. Yahoo! Geocities provided
the website, and still does to this day.
Fall 2004 –
First story: NCIC Golf Season Preview
First Athlete Q&A: Lisa Rastede of the Sterling
Girls Golf team
First game article: Bureau Valley Football defeats
Sterling Newman @ SHS
First Team Spotlight: Fulton Volleyball
February 12, 2005 – NISB covers the 8th Annual
National City Hoops Showdown at NIU’s
Convocation Center. This was considered the
first major event covered by NISB. A game article
of the Rockford Jefferson win over Rochelle is
written, along with a Q&A with Jefferson’s Robert
Eppinger.
June 4, 2005 – NISB covers its first state
tournament: the Class A State Softball
Tournament in East Peoria. Rock Island Alleman
loses in the quarterfinals to Williamsfield, while
Rockridge defeats Beecher, Pickneyville and
Williamsfield to win the state championship.
June 15, 2005 – NISB’s first anniversary is set. A
change of message boards from Network54 to
Cjb.net was made in order to rid of advertisement
difficulty.
Fall 2005 – The “Northern Illinois Sports Beat
Report” debuts on EdgyTim.com. Written by
Cutter each week of football, news and stories
about area football is told to a Chicago-based
audience.
Winter 2005-06 – NISB partners with
StreatorSports.com to provide news to the
Streator and Northern Illinois community.
Spring 2006 – NISB Baseball Q&A with Seth
Blair. Blair gets drafted by the Oakland Athletics
in the 47th round in 2007 and was projected to
be as high as compensation first round. In it, he
makes mention of his dreams to become a major
league baseball player.
June 15, 2006 – Technological changes made
to NISB: new message boards and shorter main
page URL. Boundaries shrink, axing several far
schools including Rockridge, Johnsburg, and
Princeville.
Summer 2006 – Northern Illinois Sports Beat
becomes an officially recognized IHSA Media
outlet, giving it all-access coverage to state final
events. Also during the summer, NISB is
mentioned for the first time in a newspaper, when
the Ottawa Times writes about NISB’s predictions
for NCIC Reagan Football.
February 16-17, 2007 – NISB covers Rockford
Boylan at the Class AA Boys Basketball State
Tournament, marking NISB’s first appearance at
“America’s Original March Madness.”
June 15, 2007 – Third State of the Site Address:
Advances in technological areas noted, cuts in
features and plans to cover the State Football
playoffs are announced.
January 8, 2008 - The practice of writing game
articles is put on hold in favor of more advanced
stories, a practice which advances to the next
school year.
June 15, 2009 - A new and improved Northern
Illinois Sports Beat website is launched, which
has its own domain name. Storage space
becomes a non-issue. The launch comes during
the fifth anniversary of the site's inception.
Gingrich. It is a message board website devoted
basketball.
1997-2001 - NCICPreps moves to the Alliance
Sports network of websites, which later was
acquired by Rivals.com. The name is changed to
NCIPreps.com and pictures and stories were
added. Forums included an Premimum Ticket
Forum (viewable for a nominal fee), the NCI
Gridiron (football), NCI Boys Basketball forum
and forums for baseball, track and field/XC,
wrestling, girls sports, underclassmen sports and
separate forums for the Western Big 6 and NIC-9
Conferences.
February 2002 – Current NISB Publisher Cody
Cutter (#35) begins posting on the message
boards. New boards created at the time included
the ill-fated Jimmyland (home of popular poster
JimmyChitwood), and Three Rivers Sports
Forums. The Open Forum debuts during this
time as well.
Fall-Winter 2002-03 – Sterling-based Prep
Sports Online acquires NCIPreps.com. PSO
moves the website from Rivals.com to
JabezNetworks, host of the PSO websites. At this
time, NCIPreps becomes strictly message boards.
Fall 2003 – NCIPreps.com begins using the
PhPbb forum style for the first time. Two new
administrators, both PSO officials, are added to
the staff.
February 2004 – Message boards see spark in
popularity in light of the highly anticipated Rock
Falls-Winnebago Boys Basketball game. It was
common to have around-the-clock discussion
about the game in the days leading up to it.
March 2004 – Administrators seek help out, as
select moderators are chosen to oversee
message board functions.
June 10, 2004 – NCIPreps begins what was to
become an ill-fated construction session, and
eventually the NCIPreps.com website was
dumped from PSO’s array of websites, effectively
shutting down the site for good.
June 15, 2004 – Cutter creates a new NCIpreps.
com was created, but after realizing the name
was still in use by PSO, it was changed to
Northern Illinois Sports Beat. Network54 provided
the NISB Message Boards, which for the first time
had a loose geographic boundary that was
considered an expansion of the traditional
NCIPreps boundaries.
August 30, 2004 – After realizing that NCIPreps
was gone for good, Cutter would create a
reconstruction, as what was first considered an
extension of NISB, of what NCIPreps was like in
its days on Rivals.com: Message Boards, news
stories, Athlete Q&A’s, photo galleries, and more.
The message boards would then simply become
a feature of Northern Illinois Sports Beat, along
with the text features. Yahoo! Geocities provided
the website, and still does to this day.
Fall 2004 –
First story: NCIC Golf Season Preview
First Athlete Q&A: Lisa Rastede of the Sterling
Girls Golf team
First game article: Bureau Valley Football defeats
Sterling Newman @ SHS
First Team Spotlight: Fulton Volleyball
February 12, 2005 – NISB covers the 8th Annual
National City Hoops Showdown at NIU’s
Convocation Center. This was considered the
first major event covered by NISB. A game article
of the Rockford Jefferson win over Rochelle is
written, along with a Q&A with Jefferson’s Robert
Eppinger.
June 4, 2005 – NISB covers its first state
tournament: the Class A State Softball
Tournament in East Peoria. Rock Island Alleman
loses in the quarterfinals to Williamsfield, while
Rockridge defeats Beecher, Pickneyville and
Williamsfield to win the state championship.
June 15, 2005 – NISB’s first anniversary is set. A
change of message boards from Network54 to
Cjb.net was made in order to rid of advertisement
difficulty.
Fall 2005 – The “Northern Illinois Sports Beat
Report” debuts on EdgyTim.com. Written by
Cutter each week of football, news and stories
about area football is told to a Chicago-based
audience.
Winter 2005-06 – NISB partners with
StreatorSports.com to provide news to the
Streator and Northern Illinois community.
Spring 2006 – NISB Baseball Q&A with Seth
Blair. Blair gets drafted by the Oakland Athletics
in the 47th round in 2007 and was projected to
be as high as compensation first round. In it, he
makes mention of his dreams to become a major
league baseball player.
June 15, 2006 – Technological changes made
to NISB: new message boards and shorter main
page URL. Boundaries shrink, axing several far
schools including Rockridge, Johnsburg, and
Princeville.
Summer 2006 – Northern Illinois Sports Beat
becomes an officially recognized IHSA Media
outlet, giving it all-access coverage to state final
events. Also during the summer, NISB is
mentioned for the first time in a newspaper, when
the Ottawa Times writes about NISB’s predictions
for NCIC Reagan Football.
February 16-17, 2007 – NISB covers Rockford
Boylan at the Class AA Boys Basketball State
Tournament, marking NISB’s first appearance at
“America’s Original March Madness.”
June 15, 2007 – Third State of the Site Address:
Advances in technological areas noted, cuts in
features and plans to cover the State Football
playoffs are announced.
January 8, 2008 - The practice of writing game
articles is put on hold in favor of more advanced
stories, a practice which advances to the next
school year.
June 15, 2009 - A new and improved Northern
Illinois Sports Beat website is launched, which
has its own domain name. Storage space
becomes a non-issue. The launch comes during
the fifth anniversary of the site's inception.
| NISB - Always a Work in Progress |
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